Ecology

The soil teems with billions of hidden microbes. Researchers have begun to catalog how these organisms are changing the world.

In the few decades since viruses were first found in the oceans, scientists have only been able to identify a handful of species. A new survey has uncovered nearly all the rest.

The movement of lizards around the Caribbean is forcing researchers to account for human activity in even their most basic ecological models.

Nature’s large-scale patterns emerge from incomplete surveys that borrow ideas from information theory.

Striking evidence that plants warn each other of environmental dangers is reviving a once ridiculed field.

As science dives headlong into an ocean of data, the demands of large-scale interdisciplinary collaborations are growing increasingly acute.